Although Ghostbusters pulled in $46 million at the box office this weekend, star Leslie Jones is having a hard time celebrating. Jones has been forced to leave Twitter in "tears" after getting barraged with racist tweets.

She shared the awful things sent to her before she left the platform. On Tuesday, celebs like Chrissy Teigen, Margaret Cho and Ghostbusters director Paul Feig are showing support for the actor.

"It's like when you think 'ok I've proven I'm worthy' then you get hit with a shovel of hated," Jones wrote. "I'm numb...I'm not stupid to not know racism exists. And I know it will probably live on way after me. But we have to make people take responsibility...for the hate they sprew. We have to stand up to it."

And then she went after Twitter, saying they should block accounts that use hate speech: "Twitter I understand you got free speech I get it. But there has to be some guidelines when you let (hate) spread like that...It's not enough to freeze Acct. They should be reported."

Finally, she left:

I leave Twitter tonight with tears and a very sad heart.All this cause I did a movie.You can hate the movie but the shit I got today...wrong

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